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end run

[ end ruhn ]

noun

  1. Football. Also called end sweep, a running play in which the ball-carrier attempts to outflank the defensive end.
  2. Informal.
    1. an evasive or diversionary maneuver.
    2. an attempt to surmount a difficulty without confronting it directly.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of end run1

An Americanism dating back to 1900–05

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Idioms and Phrases

Evasive action, as in The new department head was making an end run around the old hands who opposed her appointment . This term comes from American football, where it denotes an offensive play in which the ball carrier runs around one end of the opposing team's line. [Mid-1900s]

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Example Sentences

But just think how memorable it would have been had you made an actual end-run on Tuesday night.

By bringing everything up, right now, Kerry does an end run around that tradition, while also deftly avoiding any specifics.

It should be clear to anyone that Holder has run an end run around the Espionage Act by his actions.

And the very political forces that you are trying to end run would rise up and obstruct at every turn.

But as I wrote last week, you cannot use semantic games to do an end run around an enumerated constitutional right.

To conclude, the short question will be, Whether you will join with those who must in the end run the same fate with you?

The lowest range of arches opening from the Grinfield-street end run to the northward.

Wisdom and power and means directed to an end run all through the scheme of Nature.

Claflin got another first down by two plunges at the right of the opponent's line and a wide end-run.

An end run was blocked, a third forward pass was intercepted.

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